Vickers 6-Ton / Mark E
Vickers 6-Ton / Mark E — United Kingdom. Open the vehicle profile in the Trackpads Armor Archive.
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Vickers Mark E in Polish Service
Vickers Mark E in Polish Service — United Kingdom / Poland. Open the vehicle profile in the Trackpads Armor Archive.
Vickers Medium Mark C
Vickers Medium Mark C — United Kingdom. Open the vehicle profile in the Trackpads Armor Archive.
Vickers Medium Mark I
Vickers Medium Mark I — United Kingdom. Open the vehicle profile in the Trackpads Armor Archive.
Vickers Medium Mark II
Vickers Medium Mark II — United Kingdom. Open the vehicle profile in the Trackpads Armor Archive.
Vickers Medium Mark III
Vickers Medium Mark III — United Kingdom. Open the vehicle profile in the Trackpads Armor Archive.
Cambrai: The First Great Tank Offensive
To mark the release of my new book, Cambrai: The First Great Tank Offensive, the first volume in the Famous Tank Battles series, this article looks back at the battle that helped reveal the future of mechanized warfare. Fought in November Nineteen Seventeen, Cambrai was not simply a dramatic debut for the tank on a large scale. It was a battlefield experiment in surprise, coordination, technology, and adaptation, whe
Cambrai: The First Great Tank Offensive
To mark the release of my new book, Cambrai: The First Great Tank Offensive, the first volume in the Famous Tank Battles series, this article looks back at the battle that helped reveal the future of mechanized warfare. Fought in November Nineteen Seventeen, Cambrai was not simply a dramatic debut for the tank on a large scale. It was a battlefield experiment in surprise, coordination, technology, and adaptation, whe
Abrams vs T-72: The Desert Tank Duels That Shocked the World
A story of high-tech American armor meeting Soviet-designed tanks in the desert and how it reshaped modern ground warfare.
Isadore S. Jachman: Running Toward the Tanks
A Jewish paratrooper from Berlin who met the Battle of the Bulge head-on to save his men
M18 Hellcat Tank Destroyer in the Ardennes, 1944–45
A story of speed, improvisation, and thin armor told through the crews and battles that defined it.
North to the Netherlands: How American and Allied Paratroopers Fought for the Bridges of Market Garden
A story of a bold airborne gamble, a narrow road north, and the bridges that proved just one too many.
Albert Ernest Schwab
The valley offered almost no cover. Shallow folds of earth and shattered shrubs were all that shielded the Marines of 1st Battalion, 5th Marines as they tried to push forward on Okinawa Shima on May 7, 1945. Ahead of them, on a high ridge at the valley’s mouth, a Japanese machine gun hammered the slopes, stitching bullets across every patch of ground where a helmet or sleeve dared to move. The air vibrated with the c
Armored combat in the Gulf War
A story of high-tech American armor meeting Soviet-designed tanks in the desert and how it reshaped modern ground warfare.
Arthur O. Beyer
The January sky over eastern Belgium is the color of steel, low clouds pressing down on snow-covered fields. An American armored task force eases forward along a narrow road when the world ahead of it suddenly erupts. Antitank rounds smash into the frozen earth, machine guns rake the ditches, and rifle fire lashes out from a ridgeline roughly two hundred yards in front of the column. Inside one of the lead tank destr
Battle of Cambrai
Before sunrise on November 20, 1917, the British attack began without the usual warning. There was no long preliminary bombardment to announce that an offensive was coming. No days of shellfire tearing the battlefield apart in advance. Instead, the opening movement at Cambrai depended on secrecy, timing, and the strange mechanical presence of hundreds of tanks moving toward the German line.
Battle of Chosin Reservoir
A story of a frozen fighting withdrawal and how it reshaped the war in Korea.
Battle of El Guettar
A story of hard lessons, desert tank duels, and a young armor force learning fast enough to change a campaign.